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Posted on 07/17/2022 12:56:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Newton’s Theory of Gravity explains most large-scale events fairly well. ... However, the theory is not foolproof. Einstein’s theories of general and special relativity, for example, explained data that Newton’s theory couldn’t. Scientists still use Newton’s theory because it works in the overwhelming majority of cases and has much simpler equations.
Dark matter was proposed as a way to reconcile Newtonian physics with the data. But what if, instead of reconciliation, a modified theory is needed.... Mordehai Milgrom...developed a theory of gravity (called Modified Newtonian Dynamics or “Mond” for short) in 1982 that postulates gravity functions differently when it becomes very weak, such as at the edge of disk galaxies.
His theory does not simply explain the behaviors of galaxies; it predicts them. The problem with theories is that they can explain just about anything. ...One way to separate good theories from bad ones is to see which theory makes better predictions.
Recent analysis of Mond shows that it makes significantly better predictions than standard dark matter models. What that means is that, while dark matter can explain the behavior of galaxies quite well, it has little predictive power and is, at least on this front, an inferior theory.
Only more data and debate will be able to settle the score on dark matter and Mond. However, Mond coming to be accepted as the best explanation would shatter decades of scientific consensus and make one of the more mysterious features of the universe much more normal. A modified theory may not be as sexy as dark, unseen forces, but it may just have the advantage of being better science.
(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...
The writer uses that bogus phrase, “scientific consensus”. I don’t think they understand what ‘science’ and the scientific method actually are.
Is the Supreme Court also changing the laws of Physics?
Dark Matter is Dumb Science.
here’s why.
We have an equation on how the big bang “works”. You have to have a mass of for example X for the Big Bang to ever occur. But we seen in the known universe, a pitiful FRACTION of this mass (like less than 1%). So since we “KNOW” the universe was formed from the Big Bang, there MUST be dark matter (and energy) we cannot see..
Once you start lying, saying you know things you just suspect and cannot prove, the lies just multiply.
Blah blah blah...
What drivel...
The only thing it omits is the role that watermelons and testicles play in quantum theory...
I can make myself almost crazy trying to figure out gravity. ;-)
Does it pull or push? Does it pressurize or suck? Makes me half-insane just typing this humbug! ;-)
There is no Dark Matter. It’s all dark, really.”
- Apologies to Pink Floyd
“Once you start lying, saying you know things you just suspect and cannot prove, the lies just multiply.”
What are you doing on a science thread?
Well, It’s not really ‘dumb science’. It’s just dumb reporting. When they say it’s Dark Matter what they’re saying is that they don’t know what it is. They calculate that there’s something missing, and they do not know what. So they call it ‘Dark Matter’ because it’s easier for people to understand. The really interesting part is the future.
There was in the 1700’s a french mathematician Bernoulli who studied fluid dynamics observed that an increase in the speed of fluid resulted in a decrease in static pressure. At the time they thought, oh... useful for measuring blood pressure. Who’d have thought that they’d use it to shape the wing and lift an airplane off the ground. We are ‘observing’ a missing component of physics. We’ve no idea what humanity will do with the knowledge once we find out what ‘Dark Matter’ is!
But one thing we do know...
Jeremiah 17:9
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“I can make myself almost crazy trying to figure out gravity. ;-)”
Graviton attraction mostly works.
John Archibald Wheeler —
Spacetime tells matter how to move...
matter tells spacetime how to curve.
Except for global warming.
I don’t think they do either. Furthermore, the article didn’t say anything.
I am deeply humbled by how far Physics giants like Newton, Einstein, Bohr and others got, with the equipment and technology they had available at their time. Somewhere, there are other giants just waiting to emerge and propel us further into understanding the nature of this amazing universe
Those who say “there is no God”, do not have a freshman’s understanding of how many paradoxical things exist, both at the astronomical scale or at the quantum state.
Maybe it’s also that gravity declines at a rate just slightly greater than the square of the distance as classical theory assumes. Perhaps due to a gravitational quantum we haven’t yet figured out.
Dark Matter Theory right or wrong doesn’t promise a utopian world like the Climate Cultists do.
Sort of like Fredo in the Godfather
Only more data and debate will be able to settle the score on dark matter and Mond and after a few more centuries when absolutely everything is known and there is little point in living, let alone pursuing ‘science’.
Sheessh.
“Who’d have thought that they’d use it to shape the wing and lift an airplane off the ground.”
If you invert the wing the plane can’t fly?
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